I look up to the world

by Marco Bom
(Netherlands)

I look up to the world

I look up to the world
with respect. It's still there
after it's been cheated
and mistreated by men

It lives, still awake
it gives and it takes
it floods and it shakes
it crumbles and breaks

Witness of wonders
of death and of birth
Earth will remember
my friend, in the end

the short timespan
Men walked on earth